GRE Word List
PANACEA
a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| schism | division |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |